Good Shepherd Convent purchased

A Dundalk firm whose directors are linked to major Northern Ireland and UK developers McAleer & Rushe has emerged as the buyer of the Good Shepherd Convent in Sunday’s Well, above Cork city. Moneda Development was set up earlier this year, and directors include Eamonn Laverty and James Higgins of McAleer & Rushe, who specialise in design and build, asset management, construction and multi-use projects.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/property/good-shepherd-convent-purchased-424446.html 

Nun charged with abuse She is accused of molesting two male students 40 years ago

A 78-year-old nun who was principal of a grade school at a south side Milwaukee parish in the 1960s was charged Tuesday with having repeated sexual contact with two boys who attended the school.
Norma Giannini can be prosecuted for the allegations 40 years later because she didn't remain in Wisconsin long enough for the six-year statute of limitations then in place to elapse, according to a criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Giannini moved to Illinois in 1970, the complaint states.

http://archive.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/29182054.html 

Canadian churches still overcoming guilt about residential schools

Downtown Vancouver’s churches are coming together for a rare joint service and other special observances on Sunday to show their commitment to reconciling with Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.
Clergy from the United, Anglican, Catholic, Baptist and Presbyterian churches are co-operating in the daylong event, which includes a combined service at St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church, a sacred fire, a street fair in the Sheraton Wall Centre courtyard, ecumenical prayers at First Baptist Church and other public rituals.

http://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/canadian-churches-still-overcoming-guilt-about-residential-schools 

Residential School Blues

The Canadian government is launching a five-year-long Truth and Reconciliation Commission to deal with the pain and dysfunction caused by the country’s federally funded, church-run aboriginal residential schools.

Virtually all the residential schools closed more than 35 years ago. The government has apologized many times and is right now in the midst of handing out billions of dollars in compensation to aboriginal survivors, especially those abused, at the boarding schools. 

http://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/residential-school-blues 

Mass grave ‘filled to the brim with tiny bones and skulls’ shows how we cherish children

“CHERISH ALL THE children equally” is a defining Irish shibboleth, enshrined in the Proclamation of Independence. It is one of our highest aspirations and, like most of the things we Irish hold dearest, it is build on a solid foundation of utter hypocrisy.
Cherish all the children? By all available evidence, we Irish don’t even like children.

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/mass-grave-galway-tuam-1494001-May2014/

SNAP Survivors' Network > Sexual or Physical or Emotional Abuse by NUNS > nuns

Hello: I just found this site and wanted to make a comment.I am a survivor of parochial school south of Boston,Mass. The abuse by the Sisters of St.Joseph were emotional and humiliating. Not sexual. Only one of all the 9 years I suffered in these parochial school was a decent person and a nun.This has haunted me all my lifetime of how the children were treated in their early school years. Every day was FEAR when we went to school. I just want to mention one particular incident (one of many but this stands out).

http://snapsurvivorsnetwork.yuku.com/topic/3174/nuns?page=3#.WBGIwDU1eUk 

Nun freed despite years of cruelty to children

A nun who was found guilty of repeated acts of cruelty against children in her care walked free from court yesterday after being admonished for her crimes. Several victims of Marie Docherty, also known as Sister Alphonso, reacted with disbelief and anger at the scale of the punishment.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/nun-freed-despite-years-of-cruelty-to-children-698797.html 

Why do Catholics call non Catholics heathens when their Nuns abused children?

I am not a Nun and I haven't abused children. Apparently it got worse under Independence, so surly you were better off in the British empire where the English could keep a close eye on your religious perverts

 

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130207113130AA9UQxt 

Tuam Home vigil

A candlelight vigil in memory of residents of the former Tuam Mother and Baby Home will take place next Wednesday, 2 November, All Souls Day.
The vigil will begin at 7pm at the site of the unofficial burial grounds on the Dublin Road in Tuam and proceed to the Town Square. The vigil, organisers say, follows in the footsteps of the “home children”.
Research by Tuam historian Catherine Corless indicates that the remains of 796 children, most of them infants, may be buried at the site. A preliminary site excavation by a team of specialist archaeologists, requested by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, is ongoing and expected to be complete by mid-November.

http://www.galwayindependent.com/news/topics/articles/2016/10/26/4129043-tuam-home-vigil/ 

They Promised Heaven, But Led Me To Hell

I was conceived out of wedlock, because of my mother being raped I was just two and a half months old when I was taken from my mother’s arms, by the catholic church then placed in the care of one of their Catholic orphanage. From the beginning, I was taught that my mother was sinful and that I would be too unless the devil was beaten from my soul. I was sexual abused in the nursery from a tiny young girl of eighteen months old by three lady workers for four years.

My childhood abuse in the orphanage, is New Zealand’s shameful, dirty secret of physical, mental, verbal and sexual abuse of innocent children by nuns, lay staff, the older girls and the priest and bullying at two orphanages in Christchurch. From the age of five years old I was made to work on their farm and later on in their kitchen and laundries, both at Mount Magdala – St. Joseph Girls Orphanage and Nazareth House.

http://annfreespiritnunsabusedchildren.blogspot.co.nz/p/they-promised-heaven-but-led-me-to-hell.html

Adoption needs overhaul or abandoning say people adopted as children

Adults who were adopted as children say, even if their parents were wonderful and loving, they have lifelong scars from being separated from their mothers, which has led some to say adoption needs to be completely overhauled or abandoned altogether.

 Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: The benefits of inter-country adoption seem obvious when a child from the developing world is given a chance at a better life.
It's had widespread celebrity endorsement of course, with people like Angelina Jolie and Cate Blanchett adopting overseas, and even the Prime Minister has promised to fast-track the inter-country adoption process.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4249194.htm

Housemaster abused boys at orphanage run by 'nuns and priests from Hell'

In New Zealand catholic church orphanages... the nuns use to call out the girls... who were told to go and see the priest... many a time they would come back crying... and telling the other girls that they had... just being raped by a priest... I know of a man who 's mother was raped by a priest... when she was 15years old... his name was Peter... and I meet him in 1997...

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 A housemaster has been found to have abused children decades ago at a Catholic orphanage, run by the "nuns and priests from Hell".

James McCann, 80, who worked at the St Francis Boys' Home, Shefford, Bedfordshire, in the 1960s, was found unfit to plea due to ill health.  But a trial of the facts found 42 of 50 charges of physical and sexual assaults on 25 boys to be proven.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-37552277